“Cannabis sellers are gearing up for their first holiday season since recreational marijuana was legalised in the US state of Colorado.
At Grass Station, a shop in Denver that sells US$7 (NZ$9) joints, US$21 (NZ$27) chocolate bars and even a US$11 (NZ$14) lip balm, the goal is to get the same kind of post-Thanksgiving sales bump as department stores or clothing chains. Some pot sellers have even renamed the traditional Black Friday shopping day “Green Friday”.
“We have really high expectations,” said Grass Station owner Ryan Fox.
“Now we’ve got the legal means for people to give marijuana as a gift, and that’s never really been something that was feasible in the past.”*
Read more here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/63504577/marijuana-stores-offer-high-holidays-with-1-joints.html
Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) Jimmy Dore (http://www.twitter.com/jimmy_dore) and Misty Kingma (http://twitter.com/mistykingma) of The Young Turks discuss. Will you be celebrating “Green Friday” this year?